Bull
Autor Lucy Cookeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mai 2027
For too long survival of the fittest has been taken at face value, male success defined in terms of strength, size, virility, fighting other males and dominance over females. But countering this stubbornly one-dimensional view, drawing on ground-breaking field research, Cooke reveals a far more nuanced picture, challenging the hyper-masculine stereotypes that have long dominated our understanding.
Through captivating stories, Cooke opens our eyes to an astonishing variety of male success strategies: meet the gay vultures and devoted wolf dads, happily 'cuckolded' silverback gorillas and cross-dressing ruffs, brotherhoods of bisexual monkeys and mummies' boy bonobos, clown fish that queue decades to mate and slinky 'sneaky fucker' elephant seals that dodge the fight entirely to win females.
Full of colour and deeply important, Cooke shines a light on the full spectrum of masculinity to show it's not always size or strength that matters for male success, but connection, cooperation, and collaboration.
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Praise for Lucy Cooke's previous book, Bitch
'From the heir to Attenborough. 5*' - Telegraph
'Brilliant ... Cooke is a superb science writer' TLS
'Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment' Observer
'A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology' Guardian
'Colourful, committed and deeply informed.' Sunday Times
'Gloriously original' Daily Mirror
A 'sparkling attack on scientific sexism' Nature
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1911709399
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 240 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Notă biografică
Lucy Cooke is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning broadcaster and National Geographic Explorer with a master's in zoology from New College, Oxford, where she studied under Richard Dawkins. She is a fellow of Durham University and a regular guest lecturer at universities including Harvard and Cambridge.
Lucy has written, directed and presented award-winning international television series for the BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet and Discovery, and co-presented BBC Springwatch. On BBC Radio 4 she has hosted her own series, The Truth About... and Political Animals, and is a regular on The Infinite Monkey Cage and Sue Perkins' Nature Table. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and New Scientist, among others.
Her bestselling book Bitch: What Does It Mean to Be Female? challenges the sexist dogma embedded in evolutionary biology. A Telegraph and Guardian book of the year, it has been adopted onto university syllabuses around the world and is being developed as a stage musical and television series. Her earlier books include The Truth About Animals, shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and translated into nineteen languages, and A Little Book of Sloth, which became a major Discovery series.